Spanish CVS. Y mas?

originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: Bloodworth

The Spanish language has been spoken in the United States for the past 500 years almost.

Also some 350 different languages are spoken in the United States. With 150 of those being Native American languages.

The United States is a diverse country with many different languages being spoken. Maybe you should try learning a new language.

www.census.gov...

Ok, but the question was why does the government or certain big business only decide to translate for one group?

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Bloodworth
Because it's a fight....the winner has its language spread and spoken more over the word.

You do know that English is pretty much the standard when it comes to things like business and aviation, right?

The winner had

What religion are Spanish speakers spreading that concerns you? Santeria?

Thats the way it should be. And christianity was spread to central America decades ago.

a reply to: NightFlight

I’d say it is all that will be spoken to us...I doubt very many of us will speak it. Just say bu.

originally posted by: Gnawledge

originally posted by: Bloodworth

originally posted by: Gnawledge
My daughter is finishing her last 6th year of Spanish immersion. Everything she's been taught has been in Spanish. In Minnesota.

She hates it of course, lol. But she's bilingual at 11. And that girl can talk, write, and drive me crazy with her Spanish-immersion friends.

It's not taking away a common language. Spanish is very common. What's the fear? I don't get it.

Because it's a fight....the winner has its language spread and spoken more over the word. The winner had its religion praised and spread more across the world.

And you can see who is winning the fight by which religion , culture and language is sprouting up.

Some say under osoma, damn spell check, under oboma. Muslims ramped up this game and strategically placed themselves across the globe.
8 years of a lot of shipping of people.

It's not a fight. I enrolled her because I wanted her to understand other languages. She still speaks english.

There are a lot of languages out there. They are not fighting each other. They are striving to understand each other. We get nowhere without understanding.

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That's sweet , and its that logic that is hurting the u.s.
But it's just manifest destiny.

A long time ago the mentality was not to understand cultures that are fleeing their failed countries in droves. Their culture is failing because of their choices.
The u.s. is a rapidly evolving and growing place. Jump on board or get left behind.

Being compassionate and striving to understand has slown that rapidly evolving progress.
And is actually turning the u.s. into the failed places these people flee.

Its common sense stuff in how strong you want your nation

a reply to: Bloodworth

Capitalism.

a reply to: Bloodworth

You are saying I've hurt my child by making her bilingual?

I'd say you are ignorant. But I just don't get you.

lulz

#s been in mexican for decades you just dont open your eyes enough.

go look at products on the shelf

ODELAY HOMES~

originally posted by: Gnawledge
a reply to: Bloodworth

You are saying I've hurt my child by making her bilingual?

I'd say you are ignorant. But I just don't get you.

Did you have a choice or was your community inundated and forced to assimilate?

Because many places just had to throw their hands up. This is spanish speaking land now.

Never in history was that seen as progress inside a nation.

a reply to: Bloodworth

I grew up in SW Florida, and you'd....have bitched up a storm all through the 90's.

Spanish ain't that hard to learn regardless of age. The slang terms are a bit harder to learn with regards to proper context, though. We use slangs in a far more varied and widespread manner, Spanish slangs aren't quite like that. Much less "multi-purpose" in them. In other words, you better know what you're intending to convey, or you may inadvertently risk a potential fistfight, lol.

Same goes for Portuguese, which thanks to my childhood's worth of broken-to-traveler's Spanish, was a cinch to learn. There's a great deal of language overlap between them, about a third of Spanish is carried over to Portuguese, IIR.
Despite having been fluent, I haven't used spoken Portuguese since my late teens/very early 20's, my grasp has slipped greatly, and same goes for my Spanish in the 6 years I've been up north, I can't hold a Traveler's conversation anymore at all. But I can damn sure read and understand both easily.

Be glad it's not something like Chinese (Mandarin in particular) or Russian becoming common. Despite having a Chinese stepmother who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, I never picked up either, they were just too hard for me with the nuances. Russian was exceptionally difficult, but I did get it down after spending most of my teens trying. That's another one I was fluent in (moderately fluent, anyway) in both speaking and reading/writing, but lost the grasp of without frequent use.

Nothing wrong with being fluently multi-lingual. It opens way more doors than just speaking one language your whole life. You just have to make an effort is all.

a reply to: Bloodworth

I learned the languages I learned because I had a teenage goal of having a penpal in every country on the planet, if possible.

It wasn't possible in reality, but I had MANY penpals, I used to go though a small fortune in airmail stamps every month, lol. Learning their language in return for them already having learned mine seemed like a simple courtesy, and it worked out fine.

Are you going to whine and complain I was hurting the future US, too or something?


And for chuckles, for whenever someone needs a minor giggle & inspiration to keep on keeping on:

"With patience, the elephant penetrated the ant."

-- Maltese proverb. The third (and last) foreign tongue I used to be fluent in.

originally posted by: Nyiah
a reply to: Bloodworth

I learned the languages I learned because I had a teenage goal of having a penpal in every country on the planet, if possible.

It wasn't possible in reality, but I had MANY penpals, I used to go though a small fortune in airmail stamps every month, lol. Learning their language in return for them already having learned mine seemed like a simple courtesy, and it worked out fine.

Are you going to whine and complain I was hurting the future US, too or something?


And for chuckles, for whenever someone needs a minor giggle & inspiration to keep on keeping on:

"With patience, the elephant penetrated the ant."

-- Maltese proverb. The third (and last) foreign tongue I used to be fluent in.

What's that's proverb even mean?

With patience I can tell my girl i will eventually penetrate the most uncomfortable places?
Just relax.....

I'm assuming your female?
Where do you live?

Seems like a safe space..

Jeeze me teenage goals were much different.

originally posted by: Bloodworth
Thats the way it should be. And christianity was spread to central America decades ago.

Than what are you in a Spanish panic over?

originally posted by: Bloodworth

originally posted by: Nyiah
a reply to: Bloodworth

I learned the languages I learned because I had a teenage goal of having a penpal in every country on the planet, if possible.

It wasn't possible in reality, but I had MANY penpals, I used to go though a small fortune in airmail stamps every month, lol. Learning their language in return for them already having learned mine seemed like a simple courtesy, and it worked out fine.

Are you going to whine and complain I was hurting the future US, too or something?


And for chuckles, for whenever someone needs a minor giggle & inspiration to keep on keeping on:

"With patience, the elephant penetrated the ant."

-- Maltese proverb. The third (and last) foreign tongue I used to be fluent in.

What's that's proverb even mean?

With patience I can tell my girl i will eventually penetrate the most uncomfortable places?
Just relax.....

I'm assuming your female?
Where do you live?

Seems like a safe space..

Jeeze me teenage goals were much different.

Oh for #'s sake, it just means the same thing as "Nothing is impossible", only funnier because it's a foreign language version.

Don't be such a dullard.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Bloodworth
Thats the way it should be. And christianity was spread to central America decades ago.

Than what are you in a Spanish panic over?

His purposefully insulated little life feels threatened is my guess. I don't see the issue at all, Lingua Francas come and go. Latin isn't the go-to anymore, and English won't be the go-to forever, either.

originally posted by: Nyiah
His purposefully insulated little life feels threatened is my guess. I don't see the issue at all, Lingua Francas come and go. Latin isn't the go-to anymore, and English won't be the go-to forever, either.

I'm going to find a commercial in Spanish with an interracial couple, just for him.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Nyiah
His purposefully insulated little life feels threatened is my guess. I don't see the issue at all, Lingua Francas come and go. Latin isn't the go-to anymore, and English won't be the go-to forever, either.

I'm going to find a commercial in Spanish with an interracial couple, just for him.

He'd absolutely # himself to know my kids' best friends are a half black, half Puerto Rican kid fluent in Spanish and they've picked it up, and the other kiddo is half Finnish, half Odawa (Ottawa). OMG, they speak something OTHER than English as their primary languages, holy crap! And until they moved, we had a Potawatomi family here, my god man, it's not as white and English-first speaking as he's comfy with!

originally posted by: Nyiah
...we had a Potawatomi family here...

As in Potawatomi Massacre led by John BROWN? Where he killed white pro-slavers?

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Nyiah
...we had a Potawatomi family here...

As in Potawatomi Massacre led by John BROWN? Where he killed white pro-slavers?

It's spelled Pottawatomie regarding the massacre, and it was in Kansas, so no, not THAT group, the Michigan Indigenous one

a reply to: Bloodworth

Arab. Nearly 70% in Dearborn. City hall moved out of historic hall...to the whiter West Village.

All stores, workers, drs, nurses, lawyers, painters, stores, specialists, lawyers gas stations etc etc....Arabic.

Sign at Schaefer and Michigan, at the old city hall...????

"Welcome to EAST-born." NOT Dear-born.

Signs in Arabic/Farsi. It is we who have to adapt. They don't. And they continue on w not assemilating. They do sign the checks tho...

We...have to.